Lesson Summary

Analysis

• Intended Learner Audience
  The intended learner audience comprises individuals who want to use the archival audio and moving image (video) materials in the Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection in their research and to cite these resources following agreed-upon academic standards. In some cases, learners may access these materials via the Internet, but in most cases, they will have to come in person to the Media Department in the University of Georgia's Main Library to use them. Some learners will be undergraduate or graduate students who are required to use these primary source materials for class assignments, but in most cases they will be highly motivated scholars who are using these materials of their own volition. Most learners will be college graduates and many will have doctoral degrees. Most will be used to writing papers using academic style conventions. Learners who are utilizing visual materials will likely have a highly developed level of visual literacy, but those who are using audio materials may not. Some users may have a good sense of the particular qualities common to archival a/v materials but many will probably not.

It is not anticipated that those who take this tutorial on the Media Archives site will avail themselves of one of each type of resource available in the Archive; therefore, learners will not need to master the complete content of the tutorial. When the instruction moves from the general to individual specific cases, learners will be able to choose to learn only those concepts and rules which apply to the resources they wish to cite.

• Client
  The client is the Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia Libraries. The Archives wishes to increase scholarly use of the collection. This tutorial will be a component of its Web site, which is currently being redesigned.

• Learning environment
  This tutorial may be accessed by any visitor to the Media Archives Web site. Although it is designed for use in creating citations for materials in Media Archives, it may be used by anyone who wishes to create a citation for any archival a/v materials used from any source. The Media Archives site manager will maintain the tutorial. As conventions for this type of citation become more formalized (e.g.: included in MLA and/or APA style manuals) the content of the tutorial will be revised.

• Content

- Introduction. The instructional module will begin with a brief overview of the importance of using primary source materials like those found in Media Archives. This affective component is included because the process of creating correct citations is complex and initially may seem overwhelming. We do not want the learners to lose motivation before the learning has even begun.

- Instruction. The basics of citing standard print sources will be reviewed. The complexities of determining things like title, author, and place of publication for archival a/v materials will be briefly discussed. The characteristics of archival a/v material will be discussed. The sources that users can consult to determine the characteristics of the item they are using will be reviewed. Construction of citations will be demonstrated. and opportunities for practice will be frequent.

- Glossary. A glossary of relevant terms will be provided

- Assessment. Opportunities for interaction will frequently be provided throughout the instruction. If a learner "gets it right" then he or she will be prompted to continue. If the learner fails to demonstrate mastery of an enabling concept or objective, he or she will be encouraged to go back and review the supporting concepts. Following completion of the tutorial, learners will take a quiz which includes a combination of multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions.

Goals & Objectives

• Instructional goals

The learners will be able to write correct and complete citations for each type of archival audio and moving image (video) materials available in Media Archives (e.g., radio, television, home movies, digitized interviews, supplemental paper files). As a secondary goal, they will be able to state at least one reason for using archival audio and moving image (video) materials as reference sources.

• Instructional objectives:

Upon completion of this instructional module:
(learning outcomes provided in parentheses)

Learners will be able to state at least one reason why archival audio and moving image (video) materials are useful sources to consult. (Attitudes)

Learners will be able to name the components of a citation. (Intellectual skills - concepts)

Learners will be able to depict the correct structure of a citation. (Intellectual skills - rules)

Given an archival a/v item, learners will be able to state the specific information that would be included in a citation of that item, or state the sources they would consult to determine that information. (Intellectual skills - rules & concepts)

Learners will be able to write a correct and complete citation for a given archival a/v resource from Media Archives. (Intellectual skills - problem solving)

Flow Chart

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Screen Designs & Prototypes

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Rationale

Curriculum Integration

Formative Evaluation

Last update: April 30, 2003 Comments to: Mary Miller mlmiller@arches.uga.edu Created for EDIT 6200, spring 2003 URL=http://www.arches.uga.edu/~mlmiller/6200project/projectmgmt.htm